CONTENTS

Report ITU-R BT.2545-0
Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Scope
 2     Introduction
 3     Inter-Tower Communications Network (ITCN)
 4     LDM in ITCN
 5     State of the art of existing inter-tower communications link
 6     ITCN application scenarios
        6.1     SFN with ITCN
        6.2     SFNs with ITCN interconnection
        6.3     Coordinated ITCN
 7     ITCN technical challenges and realization solutions
        7.1     Transmitter timing control for SFN operation
        7.2     Loopback signal isolation (SI)
        7.3     Self-interference cancellation in in-band full-duplex communications
        7.4     Relay station Rx dynamic range requirement
        7.5     Field tests in Ottawa/Gatineau area (Canada)
 8     ITCN and backhaul signal structures
        8.1     Signal structures analysis
                  8.1.1     SISO signal structure: a realistic scenario
                  8.1.2     MIMO signal structure: a realistic scenario
        8.2     Co-channel interference study
                  8.2.1     LDM signal structure co-channel interference analysis
                  8.2.2     TDM signal structure co-channel interference analysis
                  8.2.3     LDM-LDM vs LDM-TDM signal structures
        8.3     Summary
 9     ITCN network node integrating with BCN and other technologies
        9.1     DTV network evolution: legacy and future networks
                  9.1.1     Legacy DTV networks
                  9.1.2     Broadband mobile access networks as a reference architecture
                  9.1.3     The need of a specific broadcast core network
        9.2     Future DTV networks: transmitter network (access network) and broadcast core network
        9.3     Broadcast Node (bcNode)
        9.4     Summary
10     Conclusion
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